Please help me ID this gun.

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I saw a security officer in Hollywood carry a gun I didn't recognize, so I thought you guys might help me, since it's been bothering me.

It was a semi-auto pistol. The handle looked like a sig p series. It was a metal gun, not a polymer. The thing that threw me was, the hammer on it, was that of the old style German Lugers. It had that ridged barrel, that was slip. So it looked like O=O when you look at it from the back, with the "O" parts serrated.

The slide looked like that of a beretta, but it didn't have an open slide design that's the signature beretta. It was tapered and not a square slide.

That is what I observed, and I have never seen a gun with this mixture.. So if you know what it is, help me out!

Thanks.
Albert
 
Sounds like a South African Vector. Not the little one, the big one.
Or maybe the Steyr GB.
Actually, I'm betting it was a Steyr GB. It has the Beretta features and the tapered slide. If I recall.
 
Here's some pictures.

The Steyr GB
steyr_gb.jpg


The Vektor SP1
vektor_sp2.jpg



But based on your description I think it sounds like a Bren-Ten

bren_ten.jpg
 
:D
That's not a very good image of the GB... You can't see how sleak the Slide really is.

Looking at the images... The GB is the only thing it could have been.
 
By the way, I forgot to say...

You people (TFL'ers) are amazing... Because I threw up a description and you all could name the gun. It's just amazing to me the amount of firearms knowledge that exists on this board..
 
George, it could have been the Rojak(sp). Remember that POS? Some company in Illinois, IIRC, got a hold of the GB before Steyr really put them on the amrket in the US and then they could not even copy the thing correctly. That pistol was the major reason the GB did not do well. That and the fact the GB was about as big as a '57 Lincoln in size and weight.
 
Ah, the Steyr GB. It was the first thing that came to mind with the description, as my buddy has one that he bought because I told him to buy it.

Now he won't sell it to me. Likes it too much. Nertz.

Funky guns. Steel receivers carried to their lightest extreme, before the advent of polymers. Thin sheet metal boxes, a lot like a Ruger MK II receiver, electron-beam welded to make a very thin, light tin-box type of gun frame. Light like aluminum, but magnets stick to it. The back-straps's hollow, like a Glock, and tapping on it fools you into thinking it's aluminum. The steel's about thirty thousandths thick.

Polygonal rifling. First use in this country that I've heard of.

Gas-delayed blow-back, hense the name. "GB" stands for "Gas Brake".

18 round mags. Load on Sunday, and shoot all week.

A big gun, to be sure, but it fits my average-size hands very well, better than most of the rest of the hi-capacity wonder-nines.

Very slick slide. Makes pockets into good holsters, the same way a CZ-52 does.

Built as a military gun, but they never got any contracts. Sales in the US were pretty dismal, because of the Rogak P-18, among other things. I saw a P-18 once. POS-18 is more like it. The parts looked like they had been made by hand in 7th-grade metal shop. 9 mm didn't help anything either. This is America, and if the caliber doesn't start with a 4, and end with a a 5, it somewhat lacks appeal. GB's in other calibers would be a great idea, but I suspect they cost too much to make, now.

Very solid, very cool guns. Easy to field-strip. Accurate too. Fixed barrels are good like that. Wish I had one. Gonna have to blackmail my buddy out of his.

Or trade for it. But what's good enough to trade for a Steyr GB that I can stand to part with? Ahhh, such difficult questions...
 
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